Tuesday, February 7, 2012

If you're a photographer these days so much time is spend in front of your computer. My antidote to that is to walk. And when I walk I think, I look and I make pictures. So often these pictures don't have a particular purpose other than to serve as a record as to what I've seen. As I'm walking and looking I like to find and photograph things that ask the question, why is this or that the way it is. For me the pictures become unanswered questions. Perhaps they will even have a life beyond my intuitive decision to look and shoot. Here are some unanswered questions from last weekend....

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz